Elias Parvulesco (1985) is an artist, curator and film archivist based in Kyiv.He was a film history scholar and programmer at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv; co-founder of the art and film union ‘ruїns collective’ (2017). As a director he took part at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (2014, 2018); FIDMarseille, Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (2022); The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2022); Glasgow Short Film Festival (2022); Odesa International Film Festival (2016); Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (2018); Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2020); 86 International Festival of Film and Urbanism (2016).Also, he took part in collective exhibitions and art projects, such as 'Gray Cube' (2018); 'Social realism. Pretend to be different' (2018); 'Creating Ruin' (2018, 2019); 'Climate Emergency Movement' (2019); 'Armed and Dangerous' (2019); 'NHT' (personal exhibition w/ Teta Tsybulnyk, 2020); Kyiv Biennial (2021); 'Un/archiving post/industry' (2021); 'UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES' (2022); 'antiwarcoalition.art' (2022); 'Chain Reaction' (2022); 'To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine' (2022); 'Heart of Earth' (2022).He was a nominee of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, a nationwide prize in contemporary art to young Ukrainian artists. Selected personal and collective works:
- Endless Sea of Sand (2023)
- Narcissus Sacro, Narcissus Profano (2023)
- Famine (2022)
- Profession: Photojournalist. Part 2: Monochrome (2022)
- Salty Oscillations (2021)
- Profession: Photojournalist. Part 1: Hometown (2021)
- Insect Echotaxis (2020)
- ... The Winds Have Swept Us Off in All Directions... (2020)
- K-Object from LL-Group (2019)
- zong (2019)
- Untitled (Armed and Dangerous) (2019)
- Comrade Kobzar (2018)
- dendro dreams (2018)
- Lviv Intervision (2018)
- Complicated, Difficult, Abstruse (2018)
- Proper Man (2017)
- The Pink Map (2016)
- Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia (2016)
- Lilith’s Community (2015)
- Children’s Rights (2014)
- The Limits of Europe (2014)
- Workers of Lviv City (2012—2014)